Spain Eurofighter crashes after national day parade, pilot dead


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| 2017/10/12 | 214 words | LE JOURNAL DE L'AVIATION | DEFENCE

A Spanish Eurofighter jet crashed on Thursday after taking part in a military display in Madrid for Spain's national day, killing its pilot, the defence ministry said."As a result of the accident, the pilot of the plane that crashed on its approach to landing has died," the ministry said in a statement.It said the Eurofighter went down near a military base at Albacete, 300 kilometres (180 miles) southeast of the capital. The Twitter account for the defence ministry's chief of staff confirmed...(…)

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